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erku mods ([personal profile] erkumods) wrote in [community profile] ercookies2020-08-18 06:03 am
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TDM 004: WASHED ASHORE

TDM 004: WASHED ASHORE


Arrival



This time, you come out of the water. While the Augur reboots, the Nameless Island's own inherent energy draws people in. It's like being suspended between realities and walking through a rift in dimensions. It may make you sick, or that might be the motion of the ocean, lifting you and carrying you to shore.

Waterlogged and covered in sand, new arrivals will be greeted by robots who welcome them with towels and bracelet devices. The A5 card is already loaded up. Inventory will be found a day later, wrapped up haphazardly and delivered to each person's makeshift home.



I. Feel the friendship!



Recent arrivals and visitors to the beach may notice a sudden influx of hundreds of bright red crustaceans crawling (and coupling) across the sand. It's crab mating season, as it turns out, it's a regular invasion! To keep the beach a pleasant place to gather for the island's inhabitants, the robots are offering credits to especially enterprising crab-catchers. Grab a bucket and get to work! Be sure to watch out for their pinch, mind you. Their little claws are tiny, but that doesn’t mean they don’t hurt.

Surprisingly, there is another effect that even the robots don't anticipate: islanders who are pinched by the crabs find themselves feeling instantly buddy-buddy with the next person they spot. Did you just become best friends?! Get pinched one too many times, however, and those feelings may sour into a crabby mood, indeed.

If you are feeling particularly vengeful (or just hungry), the little crabs do make for delicious gumbo. Once cooked, they have no side effects whatsoever.



II. Phallus Phestival



Although the Augur is offline and supplies are scarce, the robots of Erku are still eager to make their run-down little island a welcoming place for the new arrivals. To that end, they have arranged a three day festival to boost morale and promote the generation of plenty of Eros energy to assist in the restoration of the damaged and decayed parts of the city. The robots claim that this celebration was once a cornerstone of the long-lost civilization of the island. By the dawn of the first day, every island resident will find at their doorstep (or tent flap, mobile suit, etc) the traditional costume of the ancient islanders to wear to the festival. It appears to be... a giant sheet? There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to the sometimes garish colors and patterns of the fabric, but at least the robots have uploaded instructions on how to wear it to your bracelet device.

Attendees will find food (mostly crab-flavored), confections, and household necessities in rather suggestive shapes, as well as goods you might find handy to complete your A5 squares: sex toys, pervertibles, sexy maid outfits, and the like. While islanders are welcome to set up shop on the festival grounds and sell (or charge) whatever they like, all items from the robots are offered up for free to those who wear their traditional island garb!



III. Fireside Adventures



Each night of the festival is wrapped up in style with an enormous bonfire on the beach, where drinks, fruity cocktails, and lively music appropriate for dancing is all provided at no cost by the robots. Even if you’re not usually much of a dancer, the longer you stand by the fire and allow it to warm your limbs, the more you feel like moving! Not only that, but everyone is looking quite beautiful by the firelight, are they not?

If you’ve grown tired - or if dancing just isn’t your thing - you might prefer to sit back and swap stories on one of the many driftwood log benches the robots have prepared for seating. Or, maybe you’d prefer to rough it for the night in one of the beachside canvas tents. Better claim one quick, though, or be prepared to share… there’s only one sleeping bag!


N A V I G A T I O N



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[personal profile] mudbuddy 2020-08-21 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Not that they are eavesdropping or anything but they do hear this man's complaint and, to be fair, that is an agreeable remark. It is a shame that they have chosen a shape like this for such soft, puffy sweetness.]

What this purple man says is true. [They got your back, Lorenz.] Such a shape is not fitting for this food. It should be more round, larger. [They part their hands a little to give the robot an idea of an acceptable size.] If you continue to make such long and phallic shaped cotton candy it would be quite impractical for the people who want to carry them around while enjoying this… [Well, where to start...] ...phallic festival.
Edited (words and all, sorry) 2020-08-21 09:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] silky_bearing 2020-08-21 03:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even if they had been eavesdropping it isn't as though Lorenz is being anything but dramatic about his statement. It's almost impossible not to overhear.]

Yes, precisely, if you will not see reason as to the impropriety of the thing then at least listen to practicality.

[He inclines his head towards the new arrival, offering a grateful smile. Unfortunately the robot running the stall clearly takes this as an invitation to make another lewd design, this time plenty round! Just... very intentionally formed to look like breasts.

Which leaves Lorenz aghast, fingers to his forehead as though fighting off an impending migraine.]
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[personal profile] mudbuddy 2020-08-21 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[When the purple man smiles Enkidu smiles back, nodding slightly.

And apparently the robot seems to listen because what it is making now is definitely not long and phallic. It is more round and...oh...

That works. A little.]


Ah.

[They reach out to take those cotton candy tits from the robot's hands and then they see Lorenz's face.]

Worry not. This is way more efficient. And they're just shaped like breasts, nothing to aggravate yourself over. [They move to tear half a fluffy breast off and offers it to him.] Let us share.
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[personal profile] silky_bearing 2020-08-21 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
N-Nothing to- [For a moment he splutters, still absolutely indignant. Then they try to hand him some of the candy floss as though it's meant to simply be... put from ones hands directly into their mouth. How messy and utterly undignified.]

There is absolutely nothing more acceptable about alluding to a woman's chest than there is about- well-

[Still staring at the offered fluff as though it might reach out and bite him in an instant. The polite and proper thing to do would be to take something when it's offered but it's hardly as though he can be seen to do something so crude.]

I appreciate your generosity, truly, but I would hate to impede your enjoyment of such a thing.

[He is not a particularly religious man but Goddess Please do not make him put that atrocity in his mouth.]
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[personal profile] mudbuddy 2020-08-22 01:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Enkidu raises both eyebrows as they witness the response of this man. He is either afraid of breasts, of sweet treats or a horrible combination of both. They know humans can be odd, but their oddities and hang-ups make them so very fascinating at the same time. This man's soul must have made some weird turns while growing.]

Hmm, purple man, just take it. It doesn't come from a real breast and at times I can be rather generous.

[It's true, most of the time they are perfectly fine with stuffing their face.]

You do not impede anything, yet I do think you should overcome your fear of breasts. [So they're still offering it. It's right there for the taking.] You do know the purpose of our summon here, not?
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[personal profile] silky_bearing 2020-08-22 02:43 pm (UTC)(link)
["purple man" again and he is horrified with his own impropriety.]

My sincerest apologies, I have been unforgivably rude. I am Lorenz Hellman Gloucester~

[Which is clearly meant to have some sort of larger impact than simply being his name. But this is not Fodlan and there's absolutely no reason for his name to carry the weight of status alongside it.]

I assure you I am hardly frightened. A gentleman would never consider something so unseemly as... eating with one's fingers.

[Completely avoiding the point? Yes, definitely. But he's still pretty offended by the cotton candy's very existence.]
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[personal profile] mudbuddy 2020-08-23 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, this is the moment where they need to shake hands. And just when they have said hands full of cotton candy. Enkidu hums a little and finally decides to stuff the chunk of sweetness in their own mouth.]

Apologies aren't needed... You have not been rude to me. After all, we were both busy wondering about how helpful phallic shapes truly are when used as food. If anything, you are forgiven, Lorenz Hellman Gloucester.

[Enkidu wipes their hand on their toga before offering it to the man across of them.]

My name is Enkidu.

[Well, Enkidu isn't a gentleman at all. They're known for stuffing their face with ridiculous amounts of food from time to time.]

Hmm...I was not reffering to that. But I figure you have your reason for avoiding the subject at hand so I shall be polite and not mention the breasts anymore. Perhaps you can tell me about other things. I like to hear about a human's life.
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[personal profile] silky_bearing 2020-08-24 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh... that hardly seems decent but he can't very well deny a handshake as well as the offering of food. Suddenly he's very upset with himself for not wearing his gloves with the toga but that was his own decision and now he must live with the consequences. The handshake is positively delicate, hesitant and polite but hardly enthusiastic.]

Enkidu. It's a pleasure.

[Is it though? He's not entirely sure but that's hardly the sort of thing one actually says.

That last sentence puts him on edge immediately and in a very different way than previously. Cursing himself for leaving his sword, abruptly feeling justified in his hesitance of sharing too much with this person. His eyes widen at the casual confession of being inhuman and Lorenz is suddenly furious with himself for not being more cautious. Green eyes, green hair, of course-]


You openly admit, even to a stranger, that you are not what you seem then?
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[personal profile] mudbuddy 2020-08-27 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[The handshake Enkidu returns is a little uncomfortable and sticky but they try their best. After all, shaking hand is the first thing humans do when they meet one another on friendly grounds. Punching is what happens when they meet one another on less friendly grounds.]

It is a pleasure as well, Lorenz Hellman Gloucester. [They pause briefly.] If you do not mind I would like to call you Lorenz. Your name is rather long.

[They continue eating some cotton candy and nod right after they have stuffed both fluffy breasts inside their mouth.]

Hmm…indeed. I do not see why I should not. It would be wrong of me to claim that I am a human, while the soul that resides inside this body isn't human at all. [That, and they're made of divine clay.]
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[personal profile] silky_bearing 2020-08-28 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Just Lorenz is fine, yes.

[Enkidu please... please at least slow down with the cotton candy eating? Take pity on him. Oh Goddess.

the soul that resides inside this body isn't human at all.

Does that mean they're like the professor? Not an actual child of the Goddess but some sort of vessel for a crest stone? He's not sure how much he wants to know about what other atrocities Rhea may have committed.]


I'm sorry, I am sure it is a sensitive subject but... are you saying you were not ah... born of the Goddess, then?